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Iran’s women have been promised sweeping improvements to their civil rights
under the country’s new President, Hassan Rowhani, but change has not come
soon enough for one city councillor, who has been barred from office for
being too sexy.

Nina Siakhali Moradi, 27, has found her political career cut short after
religious conservatives overturned her election to the city council in
Qazvin, the ancient capital of the Persian empire, 100 miles north west of
Tehran.

Despite winning more than 10,000 votes in June’s election, finishing 14th out
of 163 candidates and winning a council seat, the engineer and website
designer